2012 SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission

Submission Deadline: February 29, 2012 (extended)

The Society of Composers, Inc., in conjunction with ASCAP, is pleased to announce the eleventh of a series of annual commissions to be awarded to two student composers. The winners will be selected from a pool of finalists from each region, and their music will be subsequently premiered at a National Conference and recorded.

Awards for Winning Pieces

1st place

$1250 Award

Recording in SCI CD series

Score published in SCI Journal of Music Scores

2nd place

$750 Award

Recording in SCI CD series

Previous Winners

1998 Howard Yermish, Stefan Freund & Emily Doolittle

1999 Steven Ricks, Chihchun Lee & Jennifer Blair Furr

2000 Lansing McLoskey, Karim Al-Zand & Ching-chu Hu

2001 Ceiri Torjussen, Moiya Callahan & Mei-Fang Lin

2002 Jennifer Walshe, Geof Holbrook & Mark Volker

2003 Orianna Webb, Jeff Myers & Dimitri Papageorgiou

2004 Grace Choi, Douglas O'Grady & Carl Schimmel

2005 Matt Tommasini, Eric Lindsay, Andrew Norman, Jay Wadley

2006 Maxwell Dulaney, Carolyn O'Brien, Erin Gee, Hermes Camacho

2007 Jeremy Podgursky, Kryzysztof Wolek, Ashley Fure

2008 Eric Nathan, Clint Needham, José-Luis Hurtado

2009 Douglas Pew and Peiying Yuan

2010 Andres Carrizo and Gilad Cohen

Submission Guidelines

Composers can be of any age and nationality, but they must be either

a student enrolled in a college or university composition degree program, or

studying privately with a recognized professional composer

Send proof of student status by submitting either of the following:

a PDF copy of your current transcript that clearly indicates your degree program, or

a letter from your composition teacher confirming that you are his/her student.

All entrants must be SCI members (at any level) at the time of submission. The student rate is $27.50 per year. If your institution has an SCI student chapter, then membership dues are $17.50. Entrants may join SCI by going to the website http://www.societyofcomposers.org.

Submit both a 2-channel MP3 recording and PDF score of one work for any combination of instruments, voices, and/or electroacoustic sound. Recordings of instrumental works can be of a studio session, a live performance or a MIDI/digital realization. Multi-media works are also encouraged and should be submitted as compressed MPEG files. The entrant may provide a URL so judges can download a higher-res version.

Regardless of medium submitted, the awarded commissions will be limited to a particular instrumentation (to be negotiated with the host of the National Conference).

All submissions, unless agreed upon in advance with the Contest Coordinator, will be submitted electronically to kjuusela@berklee.edu. Please limit the size of your emails to less than 20MB each. Multiple email submissions per composer are permitted. Services such as Yousendit.com can be used to send large files. Please use the official PDF submission form, even if you are already a member.

Submission Check List

Adjudication

Each work will be adjudicated in one of nine regions (Region V is being divided
between East and West). Three winning scores will be selected from each region
and sent to the National Conference for final adjudication. Two winning composers
at the national adjudication will be chosen to write new works to be performed
and recorded the following year.

If there is no national conference or student national, then a
regional conference host will be chosen. The judges reserve
the right to reconfigure the award money. The composer may choose to have the
premiere performance placed on the SCI CD, or may reserve the option to arrange
his/her own recording session. While it is our intention to include winning
compositions on the SCI CD series, in all cases the direct or indirect costs
of an acceptable tape for inclusion must be born by the host institution, the
composer, or an outside funding source.

SCI reserves the right to choose the CD on which the winning works will be produced (either on the regular SCI CD series, or a special issue every other year). SCI will endeavor to arrange the performance and recordings to the mutual satisfaction of all parties, but reserves to itself final approval of the arrangements. Nevertheless, all rights to the music will remain with the composer.

For More Information

For more information on this competition, please contact the contest
coordinator: